Reminder: Call for speakers on rights metadata in IRs at ALA 2006

(This is a reminder. The deadline for proposals is August 30, 2005.)

The Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group (NRMIG) of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) is seeking speakers for a program scheduled for the 2006 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. The program is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, June 25, 2006 from 1:30 to 5:30 pm. The title of the program is "Rights Metadata in Institutional Repositories."

Description of the program:
As universities and other academic institutions implement institutional repositories, they must remain sensitive to the needs of their constituencies, especially the faculty and students that are constantly creating new knowledge. Scholarly communication is moving online at an increasing pace, and the technology that enables digital publishing has accelerated faster than our ability to meet the legal requirements of copyright. Rights management systems provide potential solutions to the complexities of copyright and access management. This program will provide a forum for discussing trends in rights management for institutional repositories.

We are seeking speakers for three one-hour presentations. We will consider single or multiple speakers for each presentation. Descriptions of the presentations:

1. "Opening doors to learning: standards for rights management." This presentation will cover the use of metadata standards for access management. Potential topics include Shibboleth, XrML, ODRL, and METSRights. The discussion will focus on the purpose of standards, as well as their practical application and future development
2. "Copyright stakeholders in IRs: A balancing act." This presentation will analyze the stakeholders in IRs and evaluate their motivations in the context of new forms of scholarly communication. Some of these stakeholders include faculty, students, universities, academic libraries, commercial publishers, and open access publishers. The discussion will analyze how cultural and legal issues impact the development of IR systems, programs, and services and how rights management metadata is meeting those needs.
3. "Managing access at University X: a case study." This presentation will feature a case study from the implementation of an actual IR. The topics discusses will include planning and development of the IR with an emphasis on rights management and access issues.

Those interested in presenting may contact Brian Surratt
(bsurratt[_at_]lib-gw.tamu.edu) or Michael Babinec
(m-babinec[_at_]northwestern.edu), the NRMIG Programming Co-chairs. Please
provide the title for the presentation, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and the duration of the presentation.

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Brian Surratt, MLIS
Metadata Coordinator
Digital Initiatives, Research and Technology Texas A&M University Libraries
http://di.tamu.edu/bsurratt/
(979) 845-5454
Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 00:10:30 GMT